Just a few days ago I got to know there used to be personal friendships between LGB's and Playmobil's leading chiefs long ago as both companies used to be settled not too far away from each other (one on Nurembergs left the other on the right). Quite likely that's the reason for that old partnership.

Just a few days ago I got to know there used to be personal friendships between LGB's and Playmobil's leading chiefs long ago as both companies used to be settled not too far away from each other (one on Nurembergs left the other on the right). Quite likely that's the reason for that old partnership.jj:

I have once proposed to remove the production from Playmobil trains to LGB into their ToyTrain series.

One of the things I find really interesting is that O gauge in English (Pronounced like the letter - oh) is 0 in Germany pronounced Null (zero). That makes what we call HO (aitch-oh) halb null in German (half zero). The numerals are the original gauge names, we just alphabetized them in English for some reason, probably because we lost track of the fact they were supposed to be numbers.

Yes, it's 1:45 or O gauge. And it really is interesting, that Germans use to say Zero gauge while English speakers would call it "Oh"-Gauge assuming a letter instead of a numeral. I daresay "Zero" would be the original name as the other two big gauges are labelled as 1 and 2, so clearly numbered, not "lettered". There is a film on youtube (click) showing that trains from min 9:27 (and our layout from min 14:12 though without my trains as I only could go there to set our layout up but not to enjoy the running-the-trains-for-visitors-fun).